A landmark collaboration between FIAT and Ferrari, the FIAT Dino was engineered primarily to help Ferrari meet the FIA's Formula 2 racing homologation rules, which mandated that racing engines must be derived from a production car with at least 500 units built annually
Powered by a 2.0-litre, all-aluminium, DOHC 65-degree V6 (shared with the Ferrari Dino 206GT) offering 160bhp fed through a five-speed manual transmission and limited-slip differential
This left-hand drive example was first registered in France in April 1968 and imported to the UK in 2013 by its previous owner who had owned it since the mid 2000s
Documentation with the car confirm a 2011 top-end rebuild carried out in France at the cost of €2,500, with copies of photos suggesting it has covered around 5,000km since then
During its early years here it spent some time at a Dino specialist and benefitted from almost £8,000 worth of mechanical and maintenance work, as well as a partial floor-pan restoration and carb rebuild...